I love Steve Danuser and the rest of the art team but this is absolute nonsense and bullcrap for the NE community. It makes zero sense and is one of the worst ways you can turn Sylvanas the other way. It would've been better if Tyrande chose vengeance and let Ardenweald die, imagine the shock value and character development it would've made for her and besides? Learning Elune didn't know and simply used them to "help" the Winter Queen should've set Tyrande even more ablaze.
"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
The implication is that the WQ called Elune on the phone ('cries for help went unheard') after the drought started happening and then figured Elune was ignoring her, hence why she's mad at Elune earlier. So far so good. Elune then saw an opportunity when the tree burned to do her sister a solid and fed-ex'd the souls to Ardenweald, skipping the Arbiter's choosing process presumably. Those souls went to the Maw. Elune learned this at latest in this cinematic and felt bad. But more likely is it that she learned it while inside Tyrande. Her choice to cut her powers off at the cardinal moment in the previous cinematic only gels in light of this as it's stated outright in this cinematic that she can continue buffing her up. Ergo, while Elune may simply have been ignorant and be unable to look into the Shadowlands, the scenario that puts Tyrande in the position where she has to give up her grievances so that the WQ can get what she's after is still canon.
The funny thing is, when it comes to that last point that'd actually be proper godly stuff right there but I really, really don't think that's what they intended to pull off.
Dickmann's Law: As a discussion on the Lore forums becomes longer, the probability of the topic derailing to become about Sylvanas approaches 1.
Tinkers will be the next Class confirmed.
And i really, really wish it had never come.This is huge. How many years have we waited for this moment!
Formerly known as Arafal
She has enough knowledge of Shadowlands to know there is a drought, but she can't have any sort of idea about why. That seems farfetched.
Does she have a battery of sensors picking information about Shadowlands anima level triggering a red button on her monitor, but as it's not her system she kinda panics ?
... And then when the system is leaking hundreds of petabytes of anima per second, she decides that throwing 1 kb of data in there will be enough to solve the issue ?
You know that Tyrande dooming the entire cycle of life and death because she’s butthurt that she and her people don’t really matter that much is EXACTLY what Sylvanas tried to do, right?
A lot of the anger at this feels directly correlated with the theme of “Azeroth matters but not that much” in this expansion.
I agree.
Sylvanas does not deserve redemption at all. The only way you can redeem her is to give her the same thing they did with Garrosh or pull the shock value with Anduin Tyrande Genn or Bolvar ending her torment and send her soul to Revendreth and leave her out of the story for a good few years like they did with Illidan so they can think on how to properly handle the character without completely ridding her.
"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
Well done Blizzard team ! If you were trying to disappoint us, you certainely did it magnificently !
doesnt really matter if ardenweald dies. shadowlands is infinite. im pretty sure there's another realm just as connected to nature. the only thing that tyrande would lose is ysera and the night elf souls bound to ardenweald but they could easily be rebound to another realm.
"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
This is true and canon but I think once we're discussing the genocide of one of the playable races and the destruction of one of the classic capitals in terms of one sister sending another a poorly worded PM we've fucked up long before we get to talking over whether the specifics cohere.
Dickmann's Law: As a discussion on the Lore forums becomes longer, the probability of the topic derailing to become about Sylvanas approaches 1.
Tinkers will be the next Class confirmed.
Seriously the more the current team makes reveals, the more I prefer that some mysteries and stuff stay untouched.
Well considering no one knew what was going on in the maw until we had to basically tell them, Elune knowing would be absolutely out of the question too. The issue is it seems people here god and want a Judeo-Christian-Islamic view of it. In a Polytheistic stance that simply put doesn't happen. Every God is flawed, has limits, has good side and bad side. Yet they were still worshipped.
It's like going to Zeus and crying why didn't he know XYZ would happen. Zeus wasn't all those onmis that the abrahamic god is. None of the gods in wow are either.
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Elune is the last mystery left in WoW. Having her speak is momentous, if supremely unneeded.
Her first words being the equivalent of "I tried to help my sister by sacrificing my chosen people" is anticlimactic at best.